The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-19
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Charlotte Harbor has practlcing female
physician.
A festival at Braidentown raised sos for
Willensen Academy.
The Apalachicola river is now as low as it
has been for several years.
Alligator hides and bird skins are appear
ing in Fort Ogden by the wagon load
At a fire in Key West, April II, a fire en-
CINE was overturned. injuring the foreman
and killing the driver.
Mr.. Herndon, Arcadias Postmaster. has
a petition drawn up for daily mail be.
tween that place and Pine Level
A. NJ. Wilson, of MialiLa, has been sent
to the everg ladies' by the government TO 10.
cate the Indians there on homesteads.
Little Jennie Pavey, of Oxford, has a
hen whose net proceeds in eggs and chickens
for the next twelve months she will donate
to the cause Of foreign missions.
Since Jan. / the lowest point REACHED by
the Thermometer at Charlotte Harbdr, taken
at II 3. M, was 36 dogs, the highest was
30. and the average temperature - degs
Mrs Param has growing on her farm
about half a mile from Oxford an old
fashion collard that was planted Feb. /, and
measures feet and inches across the top.
The gentlemen now making a survey Of
the CaloOSahatchie river will get down as
far as Fort Myers in about three weeks
They were at or near Fort Thompson the
first part of last week
j. w. White, of Lake City. says sea
island cotton produced from 700 60 600
| pounds per acre several years ago He
| says the seed used now are of different
variety. Formerly they were smooth, but
now there is a little protuberance at one
end
At Pensacola Friday night Police Officer
| John Morrissy shot and killed Robert Bas-
| quine (cOlored, who was resisting arrest
| by throwing stones at the police. Basquine
was an ex-conVict and desparadO. A Coro-
ner's jury returned verdict Of justitiable
homicide
St Peters Episcopal church at Fernan-
dina was completely filled Sunday evening,
it being the occasion of the confirmation.
by Bishop Weed, of a class numbering
thirteen candidates. The Bishop was as
sisted in the service by Rev. J. r. Bicknel,
Of the LaVilla and Brooklyn III issions, aud
Rev. c. Nj. Sturges, rector of the parish.
Live Oak Bulletin: Two colored men met
in front of Joe Hardees gate, near Colum-
bus, the other day and engaged in a regular
life and death fight, one using a stick and
the other a knife. Mr.. Hardee turned out
his yard dog with instructions TO separate
them, which he did in short order, but not
before one of them was perhaps fatally cut
and the other pretty badly bruised up. The
one that did the cutting is now in Jail here
the other being too severely injured to be
| moved
The Messrs Blaine Brothers have leased
the saw mill at Novella, belonging to Capt.
Garner, and Mr.. Burrows mill in Green
Cove, and are already actively at work in
saving the lumber to fill several contracts
for cars for Northern roads The lumber
will be dressed and fitted, when it will be
sent to its destination and put together in
proper shape. Within a short time the
Messrs. Blaine will turn odt complete cars
from that point, and will therefore largely
increase their force of worl1men.
Henry Ware and Wiley Daniels had an
alteration last Tuesday in Ogden, which
resulted in the shooting of Daniels by Ware
1t seems that Ware, who is the adninistra-
tor of the estate of Emanuel Blanco, was
accused by Daniels of misappropriating Ger.
tain funds belonging to the estate, where
upon Ware drew his pistol and fired three
shots at Daniels, one of the balls taking eff
feet, infiicting an ugly wound. DR.. j. s.
| Gibson was called, and upon examination
| pronounced the wound not necessarily dan
| gerous. Ware was arrested.
As Joseph Jones, prominent and re
| spected member of one of Fernandna's col
| ored churches. was sitting at the supper
| table in his house, Just east of the park, on
Monday night last, some miscreant inserted
a pistol through a crack in the weather
boarding and fired shot which was evi
IDENTIFY intended To kill. The ball took effect
in the back of Joe's head inflcting a serious
though not fatal wound. It is thought the
motive for the deed grew out Of some
church quarrel and though suspicion rests
on more than one person, no clue has yet
been found sufficient TO warrant an arrest
A few days ago the residence and smoke
house of L. S. Owens, eight miles south OF
Quincy, We're consumed by fire. There was
no person at the house when il took fire. the
family being in a field some distance away
and did not discover the fire until the build.
ings were burned almost 10 the ground
The loss is severe upon Mr. Owens for only
the clothes the members of his family had
on were saved, his bedding, clothes, fufni.
ture and sum of money having been licked
up by the flames. 4 small quantity of sil.
yer money which had been in a pocket-book
| left in the house has been recovered. The
loss is supposed 10 I've about 81 600 and no in.
surance. IL is not known how the fire
originated.
The body Of Patrick Cummings, a bav
laborer was found floating in the bay near
the end of Palafox wharf at Pensacola
| Friday. The dead man was seen last alive
late Tuesday evening by Capt ONlalley. OF
the British bark Prince Rupert. who said
! that, az the thIii, Cummings was perfectly
sober THE deceased had, however, been
I hiAUFINE "a NlNlN lNflNIft ann III w. lilflENi
/ not improbable that. having imbibeiH littlo
| tOO freely, after be had loft tho Captain, he
I bad fallen overheard. with the result aa
above stated Whom found bis cont was
half ~. one 81 biz hands being rAiangled
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1 move ihr garment which rosalbiy impolod
his movements in the tlt,r.
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